Well in fairness to Michael Noonan, he has enough on his plate trying to reduce Irish unemployment, and under his watch it has reduced from 15 to 10.5%.

A bit more solidarity with Greece wouldn't go amiss, and could improve medium term Irish prospects via greater and more balanced growth in the EZ.  But with an election coming up, it is hard to blame him for focusing on finding more ways to reduce Ireland's National debt interest rate burden...

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